through the lens of an indian traveller

so i am the planner…

i look at it as a mix of an exam and courting for someone, the nervousness of one and the excitement and high energy of the other! there are so many steps, but i always seem to have a blast..!

first the decision about whom you are going to travel with. when there is a spouse in the picture, most often the decision is made before you begun to think!

the dates – are the toughest, more so when the group is big – shuffling between work, visitors, other things that seem to crop up and then sticking to those dates, no one canceling out. but no group travel is true if one person at least does not cancel out…

then the nerve-wrecking decisions about one place versus another… i mean even if you decide the country, then which cities, in that what? and how to get your place in without letting the other person think you are dominating the plans…hmmm…

and once you have settled into the place to travel to and think most of it is done, the nail-biting wait till the credit card gets plugged (while you are hoping you typed out the right details, dates and all)… once that’s done, you are just praying that nothing comes up that you need to cancel. if you traveling by train in india, this is the time you are praying for your ticket to move up the line and get confirmed…

the most fun part is finding the right clothes, bag and other things you carrying with you. but given that i am a light traveler, my search becomes for a top that can be my day dress and then with a couple of accessories can become my night-time party clothes too!

so yippeeee… here is all to that travel planning… we are better than the other camp!

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A traveller by choice, photographer by interest and writer by desire, I have meandered my way around 15 countries and over 200 cities worldwide. Crafted over 20 heritage walking tours for Audio Compass, a mobile app that 'is shaking up India's travel scene' as per Condé Nast Traveller. I have articles published in magazines and websites – National Geographic Traveller, Jet Wings Intl, Mint, New Indian Express, Lonely Planet, India Today's Travel Plus, Mint, The Alternative and Unboxed Writers.
Editor for two issues of the online magazine for a travel start-up Happy-Tripping.com. My fiction pieces have been published at Women's Web and have even won me two prizes. I am a HuffPost India Blogger.
In a dedicated relationship with chocolate, books, my husband and lower case, though not sure about the order of preference. I blog at merrytogoaround.com & tweet @bhavan1.
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